Literary Boroughs #28: San Francisco and North Bay (Part One)
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to...
View ArticlePioneer Girl
Pioneer Girl Bich Minh Nguyen Viking Adult, February 2014 $26.95 304 pages Genre: literary mystery With reference to: Little House on the Prairie And: immigrant lit & ethnic lit And: restlessness...
View Article“This World and the World Just Beyond It”: An Interview with Brynn Saito
Brynn Saito’s poems are lyrical, sometimes mystical, dream-like yet also grounded in what feels like lived life. Her debut book, The Palace of Contemplating Departure, is marked by a striking voice...
View Article“That Swerve that Takes Me Somewhere Else”: An Interview with Rick Barot
Rick Barot’s poems are assured, finely composed structures in which memory and emotion often take startling, deeply moving turns. He is the author of three books of poems, including The Darker Fall and...
View ArticleBig Picture, Small Picture: Context for Dashiell Hammett’s THE MALTESE FALCON
This blog series, Big Picture, Small Picture, provides a contextual collage for a chosen piece of literature. The information here is culled from newspapers, newsreels, periodicals, and other primary...
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